C19

The moment Lady Ye saw An Zheng pull out the wine flag, there was an extremely complicated expression in his eyes. There was an indescribable vicissitudes of life and sadness in her expression, a stark contrast to her beautiful face. It was a type of grief that would infect anyone with just a single glance. It was like the snow falling from the distant mountains, even though it was far away, it still weighed down on his heart.

An Zheng turned around and glanced at Kou Ba, who had been cut into two by him.

At this moment, Lady Ye hid all the emotions in his eyes. With a straight face, she walked out of the tavern, grabbed the wine flag from An Zheng's hands, "Go, don't come back here ever again."

She snatched the wine flag back, and as if she was on a pilgrimage, she sincerely carried the wine flag with her hands and stabbed it back into its original place. The wine flag was still swaying gently in the breeze, but it seemed to have lost some of its charm. For some reason, An Zheng seemed to hear a long sigh.

"That sword strike was supposed to kill immortals, but you killed an ant ? "What a pity, what a pity."

An Zheng didn't know whether or not he was imagining things, but in that moment just now, he had no choice.

He lowered his head and clasped his hands. "I'm sorry."

Lady Ye didn't turn his head around: "I don't blame you, but you don't need to come back either."

An Zheng knew that the sword which he had touched on Lady Ye was not borrowed from a wine flag, but from someone who had placed that sword on top of it. Although An Zheng was not there, he still had his eyes open wide. He knew how strong the sword intent was, and how strong it was when it was there. Faintly, that sword contained an immortal qi that transcended the mortal world. And the most terrifying thing was that the wine flag did not only have this sword.

Therefore, the person who secretly sent the voice into An Zheng's ears saw wrongly, that sword was not alone. The sword was still above the wine flag, but the person had thought that the wine flag was hiding a sword intent, but did not know that the wine flag was hiding a sword spirit that cultivated the sword.

An Zheng saw a scholar wearing plain clothes walking around the corner of Nanshan Street with his hands behind his back. That back was somewhat lonely, somewhat depressed.

An Zheng didn't know who he was, but he was sure that the person who spoke to him just now was a scholar.

"That sword attack could have slain Immortals."

These words still echoed in An Zheng's mind.

Immortal?

An Zheng sighed in his heart ? Were there really immortals in this world? Someone once said, above the Great Heaven Stage, there was an immortal. To the world of the Nine Heavens, immortal and indestructible. With just a single move, one could pluck stars out of the sky. However, in this boundless universe, with An Zheng's experience, he had never heard of anyone who could cultivate to the Great Circle of the Great Heaven Stage. An Zheng had once reached the ninth stage of the Minor Heaven Stage, and was only a hair's breadth away from it. However, that was his bottleneck and it was difficult for him to take another step.

It was rumored that the His Majesty Saint Emperor of the The Great Western Kingdom had already reached the Great Heaven Stage, but that was only in legends. An Zheng had never seen the His Majesty Saint Emperor in action, so he could not determine just how strong his cultivation level was. There were also rumors saying that the late sage who founded the The Great Western Kingdom and also had the word Xi in his name was perhaps the only expert in the world that had reached the Great Circle of the Great Heaven Stage.

However, in the end, he had died as well, not being able to survive.

An Zheng did not know if there were any immortals, and even if there were, he did not know where they were. He only knew that even if there was an Immortal in this world, that Immortal was still a cold-blooded person. There were many injustices in the world, many evils that the deity had never cared about. felt that this Immortal Cultivator was just a selfish person, he didn't have the magnanimity that Grand Cultivator s should have.

Killing Kou Ba was something that An Zheng had never expected.

He knew that Grand Kou Tang and Chen Family had reached the point where they wanted to tear each other's faces off, and he also knew why Chen Shaobai hid in Jushang Yard and did not come out. However, he did not expect that the Grand Kou Tang's people would be able to force the Chen Family to such an extent. An Zheng speculated that the Chen Family should be far more powerful than the Grand Kou Tang. Now that Chen Shaobai had hidden in the Jushang Yard and Kou Ba had brazenly stopped him on the streets, allowing him to kill Chen Shaobai, he was not the slightest bit afraid of the people in the Chen Family ? It was obvious that the trouble that the Chen Family was in was much bigger than he had expected.

An Zheng pondered as he walked, and finally understood... That's right, how could the enemy of the Chen Family be the Grand Kou Tang? Grand Kou Tang was only an existence on the surface, but those who truly wanted to exterminate the Chen Family were not there to see. The businesses run by the Chen Family were much bigger than the businesses run by the Grand Kou Tang. Therefore, if the Grand Kou Tang was destroyed, the property of the Chen Family would be even bigger. But if the Chen Family was eliminated, the Grand Kou Tang would still not be worth mentioning, and those people would be able to snatch away a lot of the benefits from the destroyed Chen Family.

Grand Kou Tang was just a blade, and it was not sharp at all. The truly sharp ones were the people hidden in the darkness.

An Zheng had killed Kou Ba, so the Grand Kou Tang could not tolerate him anymore. Therefore, the Kou Liu who wanted to take An Zheng as his disciple, would probably kill him the next time he saw An Zheng.

Kou Liu had arrived faster than he had expected, so fast that he had not even reached the Jushang Yard, even though he had already seen the main entrance of the Jushang Yard.

At the entrance of Jushang Yard, the two attendants still stood there, looking straight ahead. It was as if Kou Liu, who was standing in the middle of the street, was thin air and would not attract their attention in the slightest. In fact, this was precisely the reason why a servant like them could receive so much silver a month. They knew very well that as long as Jushang Yard was not involved, no matter who died or lived, it had nothing to do with them.

"Mr. VI."

An Zheng bowed respectfully, just like how he bowed to Kou Ba, he could not find anything wrong with it.

"You've surprised me and broadened my horizons."

Kou Liu stood there, with a calm expression, he looked at An Zheng. "I really didn't think that the disciples that I have carefully taught in the academy would be considered trash compared to you. And you have been hiding under my nose for so long, yet I did not see that you were a piece of unpolished jade. This is what I regret the most, if I had discovered you earlier, you would have already been grinded into a piece of jade inside the Grand Kou Tang, brilliant and dazzling. "

An Zheng shook his head: "Grand Kou Tang can't polish me, if you guys can polish me out, then you'll be the ones who will destroy me."

Kou Liu was slightly stunned, then clapped: "Good ambition!"

An Zheng asked: "Mr. VI wants to kill me too?"

Kou Liu shook his head: "I'm here to kill Chen Shaobai."

An Zheng sighed: "Mr. VI was originally an arrow that was shot out, but we did not see anyone that was able to kill the target, they could have cut off our path with a single slash."

Kou Liu laughed, and said casually: "I am indeed an arrow that has already been shot, there is no turning back. You aren't stupid, you should know that at this point, Grand Kou Tang can no longer control you. Just as you said, Grand Kou Tang is too weak ? "Behind him, a hand pulled the bow open, treating everyone in Grand Kou Tang as arrows, and shot them out one by one. The arrows never turned back."

"Thus, I am unwilling to kill you."

Kou Liu said: "I once pitied myself and felt that the world was unfair to me. Why is it that some people are born to practice, while I am not? Even though I trained with my life on the line, I was only at the initial stage of body transformation. There is a saying that the heart is higher than the sky ? That's what I am. "

He looked at An Zheng, "Tell me, am I not as hardworking as others? Since I was six years old, I had practiced every day before the sun rose, and by the time I was sixteen, twenty-seven stakes were broken. My father told me that people were not born of high or low status, and that when they were born they were all just starting points. Therefore, even if he was a bit poor, as long as he was willing to work hard, and work twice as hard as the children of those large clans, he would succeed. If twice that doesn't work, then twice that. If two times didn't work, then four times. If it's not enough, then we can always make up for it by eating and sleeping. "

"But then I learned that my father had lied to me. No matter how hard you try the day after tomorrow, if you can't do it, then you can't. "

He pointed to his own heart, "When I was young, I wanted to become a general and lead a hundred elite soldiers to sweep the world and seek justice. Later on, I realized that the way of the world was definitely not so simple. When I was young, I wanted to be a chivalrous hero who traveled with the sword and killed people over a thousand miles away. Afterwards, I became an evil person ? An Zheng, there is no great bandit in Grand Kou Tang, only a grass bandit. The word great bandit is only deceiving himself. "

He turned around and walked towards Jushang Yard.

An Zheng asked from behind him: "Do you regret doing evil?"

Kou Liu shook his head. "I don't regret it.

An Zheng did not say a word.

Kou Liu walked to the entrance of the Jushang Yard and turned his head to look at An Zheng. Legend has it that as long as he had twelve spirit stone, coupled with the help of an expert from the Xumi Stage, he would be able to change his body and enter the Great Dao of cultivation. An Zheng, you are still young, you have a chance. "Remember, if you can cultivate, there's no harm in letting everyone under the heavens down."

An Zheng said: "I'm not you, you don't have to entrust your unfinished business to me."

Kou Liu's expression changed, and he did not say another word.

"Grand Kou Tang pays his respects to Jushang Yard with loyalty."

Kou Liu cupped his fists and shouted towards the entrance of the Jushang Yard.

An Zheng stood in the distance, quietly watching.

"What do you want?"

Someone from the Jushang Yard asked.

Kou Liu loudly replied: "Kill Chen Shaobai."

Someone from the Jushang Yard said, "Once you enter the door of the Jushang Yard, you will be a guest of the Jushang Yard. Your affairs in the martial arts world are outside the door. If you want to kill someone inside the door, you will not kill them as your enemy, but as the name of the Jushang Yard. "Therefore, I advise you to be patient and wait. Wait until you kill those who want to leave this place before you kill them."

"When does he come out?"

"I don't know. Whenever the guest leaves, he leaves. Anyone who can enter the gates of Jushang Yard will not be rushed out. "

Kou Liu said: "Then I cannot wait, my family has a wife and concubine, it is in the hands of others. "I will wait, they won't wait."

The Jushang Yard's man replied: "These have nothing to do with Jushang Yard. If you don't wait, you will die after entering."

Kou Liu said: "Then I'm sorry, please forgive my offense."

He drew his blade from behind him. It was made from fine steel, and looked cold and piercing. He started to walk towards the entrance of the Jushang Yard. The two attendants that received the guests stood there and frowned.

Kou Liu took his first step, but nothing happened. He calmed down a little and continued forward. Second, nothing happened. With his third step, his foot stepped on the doorstep of Jushang Yard's gates. Then, a blue light flew out from Jushang Yard's gates, like a crescent moon. The blue light flashed and Kou Liu lost his legs.

The blue light had cut off his thigh from its root, so he suddenly looked shorter by more than half. Kou Liu groaned, he placed the steel blade in his hand into his mouth and crawled forward with both hands. Just as his hand touched the Jushang Yard's doorstep, a blue light appeared again and both his arms were cut off.

Kou Liu fiercely bit a row of teeth marks on the steel blade. Without four limbs, he laid on the ground, looking like a big, bloody bug. He let out a roar, pressed his jaw against the ground, and pulled himself forward.

"Why?"

Someone from the Jushang Yard sighed, and then, that blue light flew out once again, and directly pierced through Kou Liu's skull.

With a clang, Kou Liu's blade fell to the ground, producing a clear sound.

The blue light floated there without moving, floating in front of the door. Afterwards, the blue light dissipated and an extremely small object fell beside Kou Liu's corpse.

An Zheng walked closer and discovered that it was a toothpick with blood on it.